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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-10

western road Will be subscribed. Many
OF the weaithies. men of the city have
thus far failed to subscribe.
Several fine residences are going mp at
Canton this spring. Among the enter
prising citizens who are building them
are NJ. Z. Syvenid, O. r. Isaackson, j.
81. Kean, Albert Hopkins and others.
Four new brick stores are also being
erected.
Word was received Sunday forenoon
that q fierce prairie fire wat raging if
teen miles north OF Grand Forks. en-
dangering settlements in its wake. The
large warehouse OF the Minneapolis &
Northern elevator company was burned,
and other casualties are reported. but
no particulars.
The p~ostofSce at Canton is about to
change hands after eighteen years of
straight republlcanism. John W.
Hewitt forwarded his resignation to the
department Wednesday to take effect
Immediately. John Bertrapd, q demo.
crat Of good standing, will step into the
Office about July LIST.
Charles Karcher, q jamestown painter
and contractor, and Henry Langdon
have gone to Ulen, MINI, where they will
commence work on the first OF thirty-two
elevators which Mr. Karcher has son.
tracted 10 paint for the Northern Da-
kota Elevator company. Eighteen OF
the buildings IRE in Minnesota, the re-
mainder in Dakota.
To get a drink Of suthin' soothin, in
Canton the boys say they had to 60
around behind q shoeshop, crawl over q
barrel, under q dray, dive through q
back yard and give several distinct
knocks at q cellar door, where after Civ
ing q hailing sign and taking an oath
the were allowed to pay fifteen cents for
some fearful poor whisky.
The railroad commission began q
session in Fargo to-day and will take no
the question Of electing q secretary and
in all probability it will be settled.
Since the last meeting at Fargo, when
tho board failed to elect q secretary,
numerous candidates for the place have
entered the field, and the result of the
meeting is awaited with much interest.
Since the seoond discovery OF natural
gas in Summit township this spring.
five miles north Of Blunt, parties in the
east have been corresponding with the
owner of the find, a farmer, and farther
developments are looked for o
Three wells, all In Q certain locality in
Sully after having been SINK l25 feet or
thereabouts, have struck q strong how
OF natural gss. sufficient, il is said, to
Light and heat q city Of seyeral thousand.
That the Winnebago settlers must 90
hseeEees mere apparent daily The
soldiers are camped at Big Bend and
have three weeks rations on hand.
Deputy United States Marshal g.. W.
Harris returned to Pierre Saturday from
the scene of trouble, and feels almost
satisfied that the Winnebago settlers
are marked with the unfortunate Big
Bend settlers. More, they are warned
not to stop on the Winnebago but to
unload their goods over the line.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-10

the Garfield statue on Thursday next,
issued q general order today assigning
to their places tho organizations which
are TO participate Among them are the
g. A.. r, battsliou vi the United States
marines, detachment Of sailors from the
United States steamship Galena, society
Of the army DISTRICT militia, consisting
Of about a dozen companies and various
civil societies.
Tho News Epitom,xed.
The West Virginia legislature has ad'
journed sine die.
Emperor Francis Joseph has SEM
5000 for the relief OF the victims OF fret
in Hungary.
Gen. Bonlanger has had drafted q bill
for experimental mobilization OF the
French army next October.
Nothing If yet settled with regard &c
asuccessor to the Office OF United States
treasurer.
II Is rumored Russians are collecting
supplies at Chard Jul. about 200 miles
from the Afghan frontier, preparatory
to an advance on Khamiab.
The national league Of American
wheelmen will meet in ST. Louis on the
10th and 21st. About 1000 wheelmen
have responded to invitations.
Advices from Renza Mundeka, Congo,
dated March 80. says: Henry M.
Stanley, with his expedition for the
relief Of Emin Boy, has arrived here.
All the members OF his party are we'll.
IA private dispatch from Flagstaff, A.
T., the death there B. B.
Bulwinkle, from pneumonia. He was
president OF the Arizona cattle company
and one Of the most prominent business
men of Arizona.
A special from West Carroll parish,
Louisiana, says that last Thursday a
mob at Floyd seized Richard Goodwin
and Grace Blanton, both colored, and
hanged them to q tree for robbing the
store OF NJ. Biain.
The comptroller Of currency yesterday
authorized the Western National bank,
OF New York, to begin business. with .
capital Of $3,5O0.000. The officers OF the
bank are Daniel Manning, president,
and Blsnkinhorn, cashier.
An Austin manufacturer is about to
sign Q contract with the Hungarian gov,
ernment for the establishment Of q fac
tory at Pesth for the manufacture OF
small arms. The capital OF the concern
will be four million forms.
It Ii asserted on excellent authority
that the Athletic base ball club, OF
Philadelphia, hiss been sold to a syndi-
cate composed Of Philadelphia lawyers.
The terms OF sale are not known, but
arrangements for transfer have been
completed. The cause assigned is lack
OF support.
Consul-G Cen oral Walker, OF Paris, is in
Washington on leave Of absence, and il
is understood that he does not expect to
return to his rost. There were over
400 applications for the position at the
incoming Of the present administration
but Walker, who is 9 republican. was
retained in Office.
President Cleveland has issued an
executive order blessing the executive
Offices asd departments and seat Of
government, including the public print.
Ing establishments, q. noon OF Thursday,
the S1st inst. to enable the persons
employed therein TO attend the exercises
at the unwilling Of the statue OF the
late President Garfield.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-10

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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-10

Tbs Gart4ela statue.
Washington. May s-Gen. Baird, chief
marshal oipsrade II The unyeiliDg OF.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
COUNTERFEITERS' GANG CAUGHT
The Portland People Not Green
They Thought.
New York World

PORTLAND. Me-, May 23,-David Stein
berg. James Burke, Lewis Simon, b. +.
Hamblen, Louis Wirtemberg and j. Il.
T. Broderick. of New York, with Bene
dict L. Davis, Newark, N j., and VIM,
Chase, of Boston. We're arrested this
morning for counterfeiting. The gang
left Boston about "a week ago, and began
to arrive at the Eagle House in parties of
two and three ON successive days The
advent of So many men of by no means
prepossessing appearance, who seemed
well acquainted with each other, aroused
the suspicious of the proprietor of the
hotel. Steinberg seemed to be the leader
of the gang, and at times the whole party
would meet in his room for several
hours, giving out that they were in Port
and introducing new kind of soap.
When asked as their manner of doing
business the leader replied: I'VE propose
to sell two packages of powder and six
teen bars of soap for dollar"
After the entire party arrived, while
they did not seem to he making thor
ongh canvass of the city, it was noticed
that they were well supplied with silver
money. One man at the Eagle House
noticed that one of the so-called canvas
sers' had paid $40 in silver in one pack
age. They paid their board bills with
silver money, but the fraud was not mo-
ticed.
While at the hotel most of the men be
gan to drink freely, and to talk freely
while drunk. The chief of the party
kept in his room closely and was fire.
quently closeted with his confidential
assistant, Davis. Less frequently he
called other members of his gang to his
room. The latter part of the week.
white the others We're getting rid of the
queer the two men, Steinberg and
Davis, started in on a protracted spree
and made themselves very conspicuous.
They came back to- the Eagle House
long after midnight. At these times re-
marks were made which attracted the
attentio-i of the bartender, who informed
the Chief of Police that he believed the
men were "a gang of cOunterfeiters. a
detective was put on the case and he
succeeded i'm making a visit to Stein
berg's room under the gIIIse of a farmer
who was anxious to secure counterfeit
money. The chief of the gan put him
| through a close questioning and made
an appOintme ut tn deliver $500 worth of
counterfeit silver dollars for S100 i'm good
money. Satisfied with the detectives
discoveries the police raided the gang and
secured sufficient evidence to convict
them. The men are thought to be pro-
fessiOnals from New York, who We're off
their guard, feeling sure in the belief
| that the Portland police would not dis
cover them The prisoners, who range
| from twenty-three to twenty-eight
years, were this afternoon photographed
and their pictures will he sent to In
| spectOr Byrnes for Identification.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

there are no railroads, the people are ag-
itating for them, with every chance of
soon securing them. But while the
Southern towns and counties appear to
fully recognize the value of railroads,
most of them fail to appreciate the adj
vantage of that supplement- to the rail-
roads-good country roads.
The importance of the latter is at last
breaking upon some of the border States.
Several counties of Kentucky have de
termined to have good roads and have
already taxed themselves heavily for
this purpose. The movement has spread
to Virginia, where the press is strongly
urging the construction of better wagon
roads. The papers point out the contra
dictiOn shown of county straining
every nerve to secure new railroad,
voting a hundred thousand dollars or
more for one, yet giving not a cent for
roads, although the cost of hauling
freight to the railway depot more than
offsets the reduced freight rate.
Such roads as they have in England
and throughout Europe are of immense
benefit to the farmers, and materially
reduce the cost of shipping produce;
whereas, in this country, it frequently
costs rs much to carry freight few
miles to the railroad as to transport it
thence a hundred or even thousand
miles to market.
This agitation in Kentucky and Vir-
ginia has already resulted in much good,
and other States, particularly Georgia
and. louisiana, are taking it up with a
prospect of securing better roads than
those sections have heretofore been able
to claim. Our own State could take up
this question with great advantage, for
the reason that no section of the country
can claim worse roads.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
An Incentive to Genius.
ArkanSlw Traveller.


1T is socially dangerous to express
did YOU ever notice that the most sue
ceSsful men in nearly all departments of
life are reformed drunkardss''
Il have noticed that great many of
them are, some one replied. but that
is no argument in favor of intemper-
ance."
''Oh, no: hut on the contrary. it is an
argument in favor of reformation"
But unless man has been a drunk
ard how can he reform?
We wont go into an argument of the
finer points of the case. / make the as
sertion that the most successful men in
business, law and literature. are re-
formed drunkards. 1t seems that when
a man drinks until he becomes thor
oughly convinced that unless he changes
his course he viii never amount to any
thing, he Is moved by power which So
Der men never feel, and that he calls to
his aid an ability which men who have
always been temperate cannot summon
He has to build up his character and his
business at the same time: and building
up one seems to help the other Now
there was Horace Greeley
He never drank"
What, Horace Greeley never drank?
Never took drink i'm his life
We'll. well take Daniel Webster"
Webster didn't reform"
What, Daniel Webster didn't re-
form?7
We'll, then We'll take-hang it, well
take n drink"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
The Iuwardness of BAD Blood.

The iaity believe. as n rule, that cutan-
couls diseases result from bad blood,
the impurities of which find exit through
the skin, and in SO doing take the form
of an eruption. Consequently, it is harm
full to remove them. have had, says a
specialist, patients express themselves as
very solicitOus about the sudden cure Of a
disease of the skin; the consequence, in
their opinion, might be disastrous by the
driving in of disease that might
attack an internal organ Nothing could
be more absurd. for it Is absolutely inn
possible in this senHc to either ''drive in
or drive out a skin disease. The blood
has little to DO with skin diseases. There
are disease; as peculiar to this organ as
to any other, entirely localized, depend
ing upon changes in the tissues them
selves. Others are caused by parasites:
still others by nervous disturbances. IL
Is evident that the much lauded blood
purifiers for cutaneous diseases are. To
say the least, useless. Medical Journal.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
The Irishman and his Potato.
Industrial ireland.


Why is the potato SO much grown and
consumed in ireland: 1t is because Po-
tato growing and potato eating form the
simplest process by which the Irish ten
ant can keep body and soul together. He
turns up his land. plants it. waits four or
five months and then digs the crop. The
product of the operations Is his sus ten
ance. 1t has not, like cattle or wheat or
any of the higher products of farming.
to be turned into money before 1t can be
made available for his own Use.
The complex transactions by whic,i
producers and consumers in a civilized
society provide for the wants of others
and secure the satisfaction of their own
do not enter into the economies of the
Irish peasant. He sticks his potato into
the ground. and i'm due time he gathers
the harvest. Feeling hungry he goes to
his store, deals himself out enough pota-
toes for a meal, claps them into a pot
eats them and is content. The substitu-
ton OF oats for the potato would place
him one degree higher in the scale of
agricultural progress by processes which
need not be described. We should then
get the Irish tenant past the stage at
winch man lives from hand to mouth
on the free yield of nature into the STAGE
at which agriculture becomes an indus
try. providing him by exchange or sale.
not only with mere sustenance. but with
comforts of which he has hitherto had no
experience.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
A Coming Test for TOrpedoes-

The Toulon fleet maneuvcrs, viii he of
interest to other countries as well as
France. because they will furnish one
more competitive trial between torpedo
boats and line of battle ships. This ri
valrv has Of late become as interes..ing
and important as were the old battles be-
tween gums and armor, continued through
so many Years, with varying success, at
Shocburylcs2s. Meppen, Spezia, Gavrc,
Cchta. Amager. Bucharest, Copenhagen,
and elsewhere. There is. however, one
great point of difference to be motel
Wiki. in the contest of ordinance against
plated targets all the mechanical elements
arc well known, and the results can be
set forth with precision. in sham conflicts
OF torpedo boats against harbor olstruc-
tons or war vessels, a. in last years ma
ncuvers at Bantry Bay, Toulon, and
Gross:l. it is largely a matter of opinion
as to whether the attack or defense is
really lie stronger, since the real effects
cf Lathe cannot be simulated. Chicago
riuH",
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

A correspondent of the Charleston
Ne,rs and Courier protests against the
publication in children's magazines of
such articles as that by Adam Badeau in
the May st. Nicholas. telling of Sher-
mans raid through Georgia and the
Carolinas. ''Badeau," says the CORE
spondent, freely admits many of the
atrocities often denied, the systematic
burning and devastation of the. country.
the pillage of even women's clothes, but
he tells our children the untruth that
civilized war Is organized robbery, and
that such acts of cowarlly and wanton
destruction were glorious to the ma
tion. | am not finding fault with his
misstatements of facts, for to that we
have become accustomed and callous,
but when it comes to endeavoring to
teach ones children that wanton de
struction and robbery of homesteads, oc-
cupied only by defenseless women and
fatherless children, are fascinating
reading and glorious the limit
of human endurance is overstepped: it is
then high time to Danish from our fire
sides such poison to the consciences of
the young, well fitted to prepare them
for the penitentiary and the Gallows.
And now, in the June number, Badeau
is out with his version of Sheridan's de
vastation of Virginia, which is nearly as
well devised to corrupt children as the
May article. For Gods sake, LET us
have peace" North and South, Let us
forgive, and forget (if we cam, Let us
teach our children, North and South, to
admire virtue and manliness, wherever
found, and to loath vice; to love one
another throughout our now common
country. In order to do this, let us ban
ish from our homes the firebrands and
ghouls masking under the cloak of
litarat11ra -
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
THE NEW MARINE WONDER.
A Steamship Built to Rsvolutronize Ocean
Travel.

Travel.
Washington Letter TO Chicago News
There is under construction at the
sleepy old town of Alexandria a steam
ship which, if il turns out to be a sue
cess. will revolutionize ocean travel, /
went down to look at the model the other
day with Chief Engineer Loring, of the
navy. and other experts, and they are
not pleased with the plan. They think
the ship is going to be failure, but were
very much Interested in the design, and
will watch its progress with absorbing
interest.
The leading man in the enterprise is
Robert Nj. Fryer, a brother-in-law of
Secretary Manning. He designed the
vessel, got a patent for it last Janu-
airy, and is furnishing a good share
of the money for its construction. MIR.
Fryer is the man who built the so-called
''marine wonder" several years ago, the
ship that went on wheels and could
travel on land as well as water. of which
so much was said in the newspapers at
the time. There was never but one craft
of that sort constructed, and she now
lies at Hastings-On-the-H Hudson. Mr..
Fryer says that he neveI made the claims
for her that were represented in the
newspapers, but did demonstrate by her
construction that the principle he as
serted was true, that a vessel could be
made which would navigate on land as
well as on water. for he took her across
the land from the Harlem River to the
Hudson without lOosening a joint.
Mr.. Flyers new enterprise is some
thing very different. He has designed a
vessel which he claims cannot sink nor
burn, that viii have a speed of twenty
| five miles or more an hour, and Will
cross the ocean i'm five days. He had or
ganized "A company. sold 100000 worth
of stock. and has come to Alexandria to
construct her, where the keel is now
being laid. She is to be $40 feet long
| and 40 feet beam, $500 tons burden, and
have engines of II 900 horse power, with
capacity for development to $1,000
| horse power. Her model is similar to
| that of the little Stiletto, which can run
! a. fast as a locomotive, and she Is to be
| entirely tire-prOOf, no wood being used
| in her construction except for doors and
| the cabin trimming. All the floors Will
be of marble and all partitions of
| iron. She is to have over a thousand air
and water-tight compartments entirely
| separate from each other. so that she
| cannot sink. The vessel IL not intended
| to carry freight, but only passengers.
mails, and treasure, and the space usrI-
ally given tn freight in the hold is given
to these air-tight compartments made 81
small that in case of a collision it would
not he possible To destroy them all unless
| the entire boat is crushed. This vessel
| is intended to be to ocean travel what
| the limited express on the Pennsylvania
Railroad is To land travel. and, while its
success must he matter of speculation
till the experiment Is fully tried, I'm
glad there is enterprise and courage
enough to try it. 4
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
BeliIte.
Scientific American.

This explosive is inexpensive. easily
made, and not liable to spontaneous ex-
plosion, but it develops, when intention
ally fired by a spark, a force thirty-five
times as great as gJInpOwder, and greater
than guncotton. To make bellite, ben
zine is treated with a mixture of sui
phuric and nitric acids. The sulphuric
acid should be of the Tuning kind,
which is nearly free from water and the
proportion of nitric acid should be
somewhat greater than the other. BY
keeping the mixed acIds in contact with
the benZine for some time, at n tempera-
ture rather above that of boiling water,
the benZine is converted into trinitoben-
zine, which is washed, SO as to clear
away all traces of free nitric acid. and
then mixed with nitrate of ammonia,
which is the common substance used for
producing nitrous oxide gas. The mix
ture, if the free acid is thoroughly
washed away, is very stable. Unlike
dynamite. which explOdes so readily
from conclusion. that in heavy blasts
only every tenth cartridge is fired di-
rectly. the others being all exploded with
certainty by sympathy, a charge of bel
lite cannot be ignited by blow or by
friction. A shell charged with it strikes
its object without exploding. unless a
Illuminating fuse is attached to it. and a
magazine filled with it may be struck by
proiectiles without danger. When APP
piled to Use, however, its force is enor-
nous. A charge of less than half an
ounce. placed in a mortar behind shell
weighing ninety pounds, projected the
shell to a distance of nearly four hun
dred feet, and its efficacy In detaching
rock in quarry is greater than that of
| any nitroglycerine compound.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

The evil effect of interfering with the
laws slow course is shown again in our
telegram from St. Louis this morning.
Vengeance and punishment should fol-
low quick in cases of outrage, but the
avengers and the law should be sure of
the guilty party before that punishment
is inflicted. Vanderburg, it seems, is
another of the long list of innocent vic
tins that have suffered for crimes which
they never committed
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

Improve Country Roads.

In Florida nearly every town and vii
lage of any Importance is either build
ing or agitating the question of shell
drives or turnpike roads, and the ques-
ton of securing better country roads is
receiving more or less attention from
Boards of Trade. County Commissioners
and Grand Juries.
A valued exchange speaking of this
question. says that the Southern States
are fully aroused to the Importance of
better interior connection; and wherever
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

The excitement over the George-Mc-
white heat, and the weekly meetings of
the Anti-Poverty Society is attended by
thousands of the sympathizers of these
sensational agitators. III politics is more
pleasant and profitable than religion,
McGlynn should get out of his church
and take his place among the politicians.
He cannot be both priest and politician,
for neither the church nor the people like
that idea